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AMIA 2005 Annual Symposium Biomedical and Health Informatics: From Foundations, to Applications to Policy October 22-26, 2005 Hilton Washington & Towers Washington, DC |
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Keynote Presentation
Sunday, October 23, 1:00 pm
Elias A. ZerhouniDirector
United States National Institutes of Health
NIH Director, Elias A. Zerhouni, MD, leads the nation’s medical research agency and oversees the NIH’s 27 Institutes and Centers with more than 17,000 employees and a fiscal year 2004 budget of over $28 billion.
The NIH investigates the causes, treatments, and preventive strategies for both common and rare diseases helping to lead the way toward important medical discoveries that improve people’s health and save lives. More than 80% of the NIH’s funding is awarded through almost 50,000 competitive grants to more than 212,000 researchers at over 3,000 universities, medical schools, and other research institutions in every state and around the world. About 10% of the NIH’s budget supports projects conducted by nearly 6,000 scientists in its own laboratories, most of which are on the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD.
Dr. Zerhouni, a well-respected leader in the field of radiology and medicine, has spent his career providing clinical, scientific, and administrative leadership. He was named by President George W. Bush to serve as the 15th Director of the National Institutes of Health.
In September of 2003, Dr. Zerhouni launched the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, a new research vision to accelerate medical discovery to improve health that focuses the attention of the biomedical research community on new pathways of discovery, research teams for the future and the re-engineering of the clinical research enterprise. It aims to accelerate the pace of discovery and speed the application of new knowledge to the development of new prevention strategies, new diagnostics and new treatments, and ultimately, to transfer these innovations to health care providers, and the public
Prior to joining NIH, Dr. Zerhouni served as executive vice-dean of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, chair of the Russell H. Morgan department of radiology and radiological science, and Martin Donner professor of radiology, and professor of biomedical engineering. Before that he was vice dean for research at John Hopkins.
AMIA Press Release
Elias Zerhouni to Keynote AMIA 2005 Annual Symposium
June 7, 2005
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